Boy Soldiers of WW1 Military 5 12 min readAnd so began the WW1 military service of Hector Bulmer on 24 January 1916, four days after his 16th birthday. 1Library and Archives...
Royal Mail History Domestic 18 7 min read[aesop_timeline_stop num=”1635″ title=”1635 UK Public Postal Service Introduced”] When Charles I first introduced public mail service in 1635, letters were...
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 Medicine 3 5 min readYellow fever, or yellow jack, or even yellow plague is a virus spread by infected mosquitoes. It’s first symptoms are...
Toronto in the Beginning Community 2 26 min readThe province of Upper Canada, now Ontario, was created by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1791 as part of...
The Ill-fated Sultana Disasters 3 5 min readLong before the Europeans came to North America, the Mississippi River was used by the native people to travel from...
Great Toronto Fire 1904 Disasters 1 1 min readJust after eight o’clock on the evening of 9 April 1904, a policeman walking his beat in the cold and...
Sheffield Flood of 1864 Disasters 2 8 min readOn 11 March 1864, just before midnight, the Dale Dyke Dam collapsed and a great flood surged through parts of...
Women and the Victorian Regiment Military 15 5 min readThere are a good many young women who seem to think that to ‘keep company’ with, and afterwards to marry,...
File Grinders of Sheffield Occupations 3 7 min readHAMMER AND FILE GRINDER Wanted, a steady, good WORKMAN. –Apply Monday afternoon, ROBERT RENTON, Yorkshire Hammer and File Works, Napier...
Homesteading in Northern Ontario People 0 38 min readBy 1931, over 22% of the population of Canada were immigrants. George and Annie Brown were among those who left England...
